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Changing Lives through Poetry

Forward Art Platform champions the enjoyment, finding and talking about of poetry – through Nationwide Poems Day, the Forward Prizes, and, most fun of all, through excellent projects that show how poetry can subject.

We lately offered poet-teacher Kate Clanchy and the students shown with poetry books, funding and loyality.  The results have been phenomenal: students at this multi-lingual comprehensive in a run-down area of Southern Oxford have won awards across the board, from the Betjeman Prize to the Foyle Young Romantics, and has been offered on the BBC, Path Four and in the national press.

The schools’ romantics, such as many first development migrants and refugees, have since acquired excellent things: one, a law scholar, has been known as to the bar; another won a globally allow to Goldsmith’s to understand politics; others are authorized at universities from St. Andrews to Bath.

“We display our learners that it is regular for making poetry continually,” says Kate Clanchy. “Poetry is our school’s top activity.” Find out about how we started to perform together here in our evaluation The Poetry Takeover – which has period applications, poetry and activities as well as the nitty-gritty of how to modify a school, variety by variety, variety by variety, metaphor by metaphor.

If you want this to occur elswhere, buy the novel England: Poems from a School (Picador) – and help us get copies into as many schools as possible, so that the technique that has customized Oxford Spires Universities does implement elsewhere. We are operating with Teachers’ Learning Groups, run by the Begin University and UKLA, to turn this into happen: if you know a school that would welcome the opportunity to be connected to generate more company, get in contact with us.

National Poetry Day

Through National Poetry Day on Oct 4 2018, we allow every school and selection in the nation to participate a UK-wide party, such as learning, composing, listening to and performing poetry. The National Poetry Day website functions great resources, competitions, down-loadable poems boasting the 2018 NPD Ambassadors, whose new poems on this year’s idea of Change can be bought as a new book Poetry For A Change this September.

We work with the BBC, promoters, booksellers and significant poetry, information and information companies to make sure that participation is open to all. And if you want your occasion – however small or big